Seeing all you guys golfing, even at the beginners forum, I wondered something.

- Who can write a YAPH*, with the least code. - The YAPH still has to look "perl complex", in other words: 1. You shouldn't be able to read it, or see what the result is , without running it by perl first. (so I guess you don't need the spoiler tag ) 2. Just converting a hex string only using hex() is not good enough.

Here's my entry. Besides being a bit unreadable (as I hope), it has a nice little delay effect (at least on my HPUX machine) as if you were connected to the shell via a 300 baud modem. Also, it's golf score cannot be beaten: Once it has been run, it ends up as an empty text document which has obviously a golf score of zero.

It's a JAPH in Latin. I don't know if anyone has done something like that before, but I guess at least Damian has.

Well, unless you speak Latin, the best way to find out what my code does is:

1. Install the [url=http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Lingua-Romana-Perligata]Lingua::Romana::Perligata module 2. Run the code (and you see what it does) 3. Add one of the diagnostic arguments (as described in the manpage) to the module call (and you can see how it's done)

-- mhx At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."